Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): (T)
Goal: The goal is to develop multiple scenarios for post-secondary plans for high school students.
Role: You are a financial advisor.
Audience: The target audience is yourself, a high school sophomore and your family.
Situation: You need to provide your overwhelmed family with clear pathways for future plans that contain enough details; including pros and cons in regard to financial status, interests and other factors, for you and your family to make a series of informed decision.
Product/Presentation: You need to create a presentation supported by data-generated graphics that detail the pathways that you have selected for the student. Your presentation should include a complete explanation of the mathematics involved in calculating the future financial status.
Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Identify the Problem and Create a Plan, Gather Information, Analyze and Apply, Conclusion and Execution, Content/Purpose, Organization, Delivery
Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):
Other Evidence (OE)
• Model: Create an interactive model with variable input for principal, rate and time using GeoGebra as a platform
• Financial Presentation: Create a presentation that contains research and calculations supporting post-secondary choices.
• Lab Report: Write a lab report detailing the results of an experiment testing the regression coefficient of linear, quadratic and exponential models against a set of data. Use a Ti-83 graphing calculator to test the fit models.
• Debate: Script a debate between parent and student discussing the pros and cons of different post-secondary scenarios and use Xtra-normal to produce a video of the debate.
• Graph: Use excel to record and graph the best-fit model for a data set regarding a post-secondary education loan.
• Poster: Create a Venn-Diagram using Omni-graffle to compare and contrast the rates of change of linear and exponential functions.
Student Self-Assessment and Reflection
Self-Assessment (SA)
• Pre-Assessment: Google forms pre-test over exponents checking for misconceptions
• Formative Assessment: Let's Compare Notes, Exit Slips, Informal checks for understanding of objectives (students give a 1-10 rating), peer conferencing to review homework, Quick Quizzes (daily quizzes to inform reteaching decisions and give timely feedback to students), Student-led conferences
• Students will self-assess by evaluating homework assignments in small group settings, students will peer assess their interactive model for accuracy, students will self-assess their position paper using the LHS school-wide writing rubric
Assessment Task Blue Print
What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?(G)
Understanding
Goal (CCSS)
• Post-secondary decisions will effect long term financial planning.
•Content Area: Mathematics
Grade Level: High School
Domain: Functions
Standard: Construct and compare linear, quadratic, and exponential models and solve problems.
Cluster:
F-LE.2. Construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).
What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
Big Idea
Big Idea
• Understand exponential relationships
•Understand the impact of time, interest and principal on loan balances
Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?
Task Description:(T)
As a high school sophomore, decisions for the future can be overwhelming. Acting as your own financial advisor, you will apply what you have been learning about exponential functions, career choices and financial planning to help you and your family make informed decisions. Using your ASVAB score report, you will research possible career choices and corresponding incomes for them. These findings and your sophomore college trip choice will then dictate your research for congruent secondary pathways that will enable you to attain your career goal. Finally, you will create a presentation that highlights the financial implications, drawn from cost of post-secondary education, federal education loan rates and incomes of the possible pathways you have chosen. Your goal is to be informative and accurate as you present your possible life pathways post-high school.
What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?
Type II Product
Type of Presentation
•Financial Planning Portfolio (include graphic representations of data)
•Oral Presentation
By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?
Product Criteria
Presentation Criteria
•Identify the Problem and Create a Plan
•Gather Information
•Analyze and Apply
•Conclusion and Execution
Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.
Role: You are a financial advisor.
Audience: The target audience is yourself, a high school sophomore and your family.
Situation: You need to provide your overwhelmed family with clear pathways for future plans that contain enough details; including pros and cons in regard to financial status, interests and other factors, for you and your family to make a series of informed decision.
Product/Presentation: You need to create a presentation supported by data-generated graphics that detail the pathways that you have selected for the student. Your presentation should include a complete explanation of the mathematics involved in calculating the future financial status.
Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Identify the Problem and Create a Plan, Gather Information, Analyze and Apply, Conclusion and Execution, Content/Purpose, Organization, Delivery
• Financial Presentation: Create a presentation that contains research and calculations supporting post-secondary choices.
• Lab Report: Write a lab report detailing the results of an experiment testing the regression coefficient of linear, quadratic and exponential models against a set of data. Use a Ti-83 graphing calculator to test the fit models.
• Debate: Script a debate between parent and student discussing the pros and cons of different post-secondary scenarios and use Xtra-normal to produce a video of the debate.
• Graph: Use excel to record and graph the best-fit model for a data set regarding a post-secondary education loan.
• Poster: Create a Venn-Diagram using Omni-graffle to compare and contrast the rates of change of linear and exponential functions.
• Formative Assessment: Let's Compare Notes, Exit Slips, Informal checks for understanding of objectives (students give a 1-10 rating), peer conferencing to review homework, Quick Quizzes (daily quizzes to inform reteaching decisions and give timely feedback to students), Student-led conferences
• Students will self-assess by evaluating homework assignments in small group settings, students will peer assess their interactive model for accuracy, students will self-assess their position paper using the LHS school-wide writing rubric
Assessment Task Blue Print
What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task? (G)
Grade Level: High School
Domain: Functions
Standard: Construct and compare linear, quadratic, and exponential models and solve problems.
Cluster:What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?
What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?
By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?
•Gather Information
•Analyze and Apply
•Conclusion and Execution
•Organization
•Delivery